1.   A company carefully protects its brand image.

2.   Companies should protect employees who blow the whistle on dishonest workmates and work practices.

3.   A company can protect information of this kind only so long as it is confidential to the business and not in the public domain.

4.   Also, the cats would be spayed or neutered so the allergen-free trait would not spread to other cats and so the company could protect its investment.

5.   And critics say security breaches raise concerns over whether any company can protect personal information.

6.   And the way companies protect themselves is a hot topic of corporate and political debate.

7.   And the ways that companies arbitrarily protect themselves is a subject of hot debate.

8.   At the same time that telephone companies must protect against electronic break-ins, hackers have also burglarized offices in search of computer manuals.

9.   A company can protect against a local-currency devaluation by selling currency futures in advance.